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Problems With Friday's Late Silver Price Smash

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pmbug said:
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Don't know the Dr. Potassium, but didn't his Friday post predict a bottom at 89.9, yet here after the fact he's declaring victory and saying he predicted low 70s?
 
No, he didn't predict a bottom, he said that was resistance zone. He always talks about possibilities. "If it closes above/below, then this is likely" kind of thing. It's his own brand of TA and some of his calls have been very accurate. He posts everything publicly right or wrong. I've chatted with him a bit. Cool dude.
 
68camaro said:
Don't know the Dr. Potassium, but didn't his Friday post predict a bottom at 89.9, yet here after the fact he's declaring victory and saying he predicted low 70s?
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Yeah I think him or one of the guys throwing out numbers said there was institutional support 88-90. In orderly markets support resistance works in a market like we just saw forget about all of that. Friday might have been the bottom it held above the move to the low 70's just a while back. The thing that would surprise most people would be a move back to and past the recent highs and on to $200 Silver.

Supports under the low 70's is a wide range could go all the way down to close to the old all time highs. Good luck if out or underexposed don't go all in at once unless you're planning on scalping.
 
Well, a little surprised by that but why not. There can't possibly be any leveraged investors left to rinse though.... so what?
 
The "JPM bought the bottom" or "closed their shorts" narrative has gone viral on X over the weekend and now AI Asian Guy is parroting it. The problem with the narrative is that all of the deliveries being touted as evidence for this came from JPM's customer account, not their house account.
 
So they're still short??
 
Viking said:
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I watched this one and another video of his from mid-week last week, and FoFty (Shan, is it?) - as a trader - seems to have a great approach. As I have observed from with many of these guys (me not being one of them), most of the good ones seem to have a secret sauce that they have developed over years of trial and error, including specific tools and custom developed indexes to spot trends that they watch. Some of them are overt TA tools, but others proprietary to them. But Shan seems to be a bit more transparent than other TA traders that I've interacted with. I'm interested in learning more about what he is looking at. I'm not eager or interested in turning into a day trader, but there seems to be something interesting for me to learn from this guy, so I've bookmarked him and will watch future videos until I either get my fill or change direction,.
 
He has a community. And apparently don't charge any fees to be a member.
 
Next time the Asian AI Guy says JP Morgan recommends exiting a position I will consider it gospel. I hope they don't whack us in the other direction.
 
I'd invest in companies who make acid chemicals...

 
nickndfl said:
Next time the Asian AI Guy says JP Morgan recommends exiting a position I will consider it gospel. I hope they don't whack us in the other direction.
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which AI asian guy LOL.......there are at least 10 of them .......so pick your poison
 
That was only 633 contracts. So who needed 3 million ounces. Aren't that many companies in the US that have that kind of need. Tesla would be one.

It would take a lot more than 600 contracts to bring the market down the way it did. Miles Franklin has 100 million in inventory and to hedge that they would need 200 contracts themselves. Add in a few other big players like SD bullion, Apmex, Asahi, Scottsdale and just those names would probably have at least that many contracts to hedge.

I think the volume on takedown day was right around 300,000. Thats 1.5 billion ounces of paper. Any day trader that was set up to trade metals was probably looking at that trade for awhile just waiting for it. Once it started I'm sure they all jumped in and got a piece of the action.
I'm sure the obvious players had a hand in getting this started but it wasn't all them once the trade showed itself.
 
It was not just the 633 contracts JP executed, but the timing was perfect when everybody was down for different reasons.
 
The best explanation I have heard yet. It was Nicks fault.

 
I cannot believe that a 2x leveraged silver fund had $10 Billion of assets. But that vaporizing $6 billion in a day certainly would have contributed a lot of the fuel. Like I said, i Hate the leveraged ETF's, and yet still own a few in spots.
 
So... note to self. When a fund goes parabolic up but is also partially dependent on a leveraged fund, and the exchange increases margins several times, beware! Of course the big boys like JPM have more insight into the triggers than anyone, so certainly they can take advantage of this, and then stop loss orders just add to the cascading waterfall down.
 
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